Flora of North America species comparison

trailing and rooting;

branches yellow-brown or brownish, glabrous;

branchlets yellow-brown, glabrous.

stipules foliaceous, apex acute to acuminate;

petiole convex to flat, or shallowly grooved adaxially, 2–6(–9) mm, pilose or villous adaxially;

largest medial blade narrowly to broadly elliptic or narrowly ovate to ovate, 25–92 × 10–45 mm, 1.5–2.6(–3.4) times as long as wide, base convex, cuneate, or rounded, margins slightly revolute or flat, shallowly serrulate or entire, apex acuminate, acute, or convex, abaxial surface glaucous, sparsely pubescent, hairs wavy, adaxial dull to slightly glossy, pilose, sparsely pubescent or glabrous, midrib hairy, (hairs white and ferruginous);

proximal blade margins entire or finely serrulate;

juvenile blade sometimes reddish, sparsely pubescent abaxially, hairs white, sometimes also ferruginous.

stipules absent or rudimentary;

petiole 4–25 mm, (glabrous or pilose adaxially);

largest medial blade hypostomatous, narrowly elliptic, broadly elliptic, obovate, or very broadly obovate, 19–52 × 10–28 mm, 1–3 times as long as wide, base cuneate or convex, margins flat or slightly revolute, entire, apex convex, retuse, or rounded, abaxial surface glabrous, pilose or sparsely long-silky to glabrescent, hairs straight or wavy, adaxial slightly glossy, glabrous or pilose;

proximal blade margins entire;

juvenile blade (reddish), very sparsely long-silky abaxially.

adaxial nectary oblong or square, 0.3–0.7 mm;

filaments distinct or basally connate, glabrous;

anthers purple turning yellow, 0.4–0.6 mm.

abaxial nectary absent, adaxial nectary oblong, 0.6–1 mm;

filaments distinct;

anthers ellipsoid or shortly cylindrical, 0.4–0.6 mm.

adaxial nectary square or obovate, 0.3–0.6 mm, usually shorter than stipe;

stipe 0.4–1.2 mm;

ovary pyriform, glabrous, beak gradually tapering to styles;

ovules 12–22 per ovary;

styles connate (sometimes distinct 1/2 their lengths), 0.2–0.5 mm;

stigmas flat, abaxially non-papillate with rounded tip, or broadly cylindrical, or 2 plump lobes, 0.2–0.32–0.44 mm.

adaxial nectary oblong or ovate, 0.7–1.6 mm, equal to or longer than stipe;

stipe 0.5–1.4 mm;

ovary obclavate or pyriform, glabrous, or patchy or streaky pilose or villous, especially on beak, beak gradually tapering to or slightly bulged below styles;

ovules 10–18 per ovary;

styles 0.6–1.8 mm;

stigmas flat, abaxially non-papillate with pointed tip, or slenderly cylindrical, 0.32–0.5–0.68 mm.

3.2–8 mm.

4–12 mm.

flowering as leaves emerge; staminate slender, stout, or subglobose, 14.5–34.5 × 8–12 mm, flowering branchlet 1–7 mm; pistillate moderately densely or loosely flowered, slender or stout, 21–59 × 6–16 mm, flowering branchlet 1.5–9 mm;

floral bract brown or bicolor, 1.2–1.8 mm, apex acute to rounded, abaxially glabrate to hairy, hairs straight to wavy.

staminate 21–53 × 7–13 mm, flowering branchlet 8–20 mm; pistillate loosely to densely flowered, slender or stout, 32–79 × 7–18 mm, flowering branchlet 4–27 mm;

floral bract brown or black, 1.1–2 mm, apex rounded, entire, abaxially hairy or ciliate, hairs straight.

= 38.

= 38, 57.